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John R. Klauder
John R. Klauder (1932–2024) was an American theoretical physicist who introduced the modern theory of coherent states, rigorously reformulated Feynman path integrals, and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.
John R. L. Allen
John R. L. Allen, also known as John Robert Lawrence Allen, was a British geologist who helped found quantitative, process-based sedimentology and spent his career at the University of Reading.
John R. Lukens
John R. Lukens, also known as John Lukens, is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Virginia who studies how microglia drive neurodegenerative disease.
John R. Lumpkin
John R. Lumpkin is an American physician and public health leader, the first African American trained in emergency medicine, who led the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola, also known as John Mascola, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who directed NIAID's Vaccine Research Center from 2013 to 2022 and is known for broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies such as VRC01.
John R. Monnier
John R. Monnier (1948–2024) was an American chemical engineer who spent 32 years in industrial catalysis at Eastman Kodak and Eastman Chemical, then became a professor at the University of South Carolina.
John R. Mott
John R. Mott, also known as John Raleigh Mott, was an American Methodist evangelist who organized the student missionary movement and shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize.
John R. Padova
John R. Padova (born 1935) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
John R. Paul
John Rodman Paul (1893–1971) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who spent his career at Yale, researched poliomyelitis for three decades, and founded the field of clinical epidemiology.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce (1910–2002) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, called the father of communications satellites Echo and Telstar, who also coined the name transistor.
John R. Preer
John R. Preer was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied non-Mendelian inheritance in Paramecium and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John R. Rice
John R. Rice (1934–2024) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at Purdue University who made mathematical software a recognized discipline and was the founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.
John R. Rickford
John R. Rickford, born 1949 in Guyana, is a Stanford sociolinguist and National Academy of Sciences member known for studies of African American Vernacular English and Guyanese Creole.
John R. Riordan
John R. Riordan is a Canadian biochemist known for his central role in the 1989 discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene and its most common mutation, ΔF508.
John R. Roth
John R. Roth is an American bacterial geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for decades of Salmonella typhimurium genetics and a central role in the adaptive mutation debate.
John R. Stanley
John R. Stanley is an American physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for molecularly cloning the pemphigus and pemphigoid autoantigens.
John R. Swanton
John Reed Swanton (1873–1958) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, known for studies of Southeastern Native peoples.
John R. Teerlink
John R. Teerlink is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs heart failure and echocardiography at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and led the GALACTIC-HF trial of omecamtiv mecarbil.
John R. Treichler
John R. Treichler is an American electrical engineer known for the constant modulus adaptive filtering algorithm and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
John R. Tunheim
John R. Tunheim (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Minnesota, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
John R. Vane
Sir John Robert Vane (J. R. Vane) was a British pharmacologist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize for discovering that aspirin blocks prostaglandin synthesis and for discovering prostacyclin.
John R. Wakeley
John R. Wakeley is an American theoretical population geneticist, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, known for coalescent theory and its standard textbook.
John R. Weisz
John R. Weisz, American clinical psychologist and Henry Ford II Research Professor at Harvard, studies youth psychotherapy through meta-analyses and real-world randomized trials, led APA Division 53 as its first president, and created the FIRST principle-guided treatment.
John R. Winckler
John R. (Jack) Winckler was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota who discovered auroral X rays and made the first confirmed visual documentation of sprites.
John R. Wingard
John R. Wingard is an American hematologist-oncologist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida, known for research on bone marrow transplantation and its infectious complications.
John R. Womersley
John Ronald Womersley (1907–1958) was a British applied mathematician who began the ACE computer project and created the theory of oscillatory blood flow in arteries.
John Rabe
John Rabe (1882–1950), German Siemens businessman and Nazi Party member in Nanjing; as chairman of the International Safety Zone Committee in 1937–38 he sheltered 200,000–250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre, and his diary became a key primary source.
John Rabe (2009 film)
John Rabe (2009) is a German-French-Chinese historical drama directed by Florian Gallenberger, starring Ulrich Tukur as the Siemens manager and Nazi Party member who led the Nanking Safety Zone; it won four Lolas including Best Film.
John Radcliffe (physician, born 1650)
John Radcliffe (baptized 1650, died 1714), English physician and royal doctor to William III, Mary II, and Queen Anne, whose £140,000 estate endowed Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, Observatory, and Infirmary.
John Radford (medical oncologist)
John Radford is a British medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma, Professor at the University of Manchester and Director of Research at The Christie, known for PET-directed Hodgkin lymphoma therapy.